17.30
Making Public Policy
See description under subject 11.002[J] .
Fall 2014
Topics
- Introduction
- An Introduction to Policy and Politics
- Health Care: Interest Groups and Public Opinion – Defining the Problem in the Contemporary Era
- Health Care: Passing Health-Care Reform in Congress
- Health Care: Implementing Health-Care Reform
- Policy Evaluation: Health Care and Gun Control
- Gun Control: Agenda Setting and Issue Framing
- Gun Control: Policy and Evaluation
- Federal Budget: Recession, Deficit, and Problem Definition
- Federal Budget: Recession, Deficit, and Problem Definition (cont.)
- Federal Budget: Legislative Tactics – The Fiscal Cliff and the Sequester
- Immigration Reform: History, Economic Impacts, and Current Policy
- Immigration Reform: Legislative Efforts and the Electoral Connection
- Immigration Reform: Executive Action
- Gay Marriage: Making Social Policy at the Federal Level
- Gay Marriage: Making Policy in the States
- Gay Marriage: Making Policy in Court
- Guest Speaker
- Climate Change: Science, Public Opinion, and the Media
- Climate Change: Federal Action in Congress and the Executive Branch
- Climate Change: Policy Options
- Climate Change: State Action and the Arizona Net-Metering Case
- Summary Class
- Final Oral Project
- Final Oral Project (cont.)
Readings
- SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: None
- Kingdon, John W. Chapter 9 in Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies . 2nd ed. Harper Collins, 1995 pp. 196–208.
- Mayhew, David. Congress: The Electoral Connection . Yale University Press, 1974, pp. 13–17.
- Stimson, James, Michael MacKuen, and Robert S. Erikson. “Dynamic Representation.” In Principles and Practice of American Politics . CQ Press, 2012, pp. 466–80.
- Skocpol, Theda. “Introduction.” In Boomerang Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government . W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, pp. 1–19. ISBN: 9780393315721.
- Arnold, R. Douglas. The Logic of Congressional Action . Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 3–16. ISBN: 9780300048346.
- Singleton, Royce A., and Bruce C. Straits. Approaches to Social Research . 5th ed. Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 1–12. ISBN: 9780195372984.
- Howlett, Michael, M. Ramesh, and Anthony Perl. “Policy Evaluation: Policy-Making as Policy Learning.” In Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems . Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 171–85 ISBN: 9780195428025.
- Olson, Mancur. “The Logic of Collective Action.” In The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics . W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 425–33. ISBN: 9780393921588.
- Cook, Philip J., and Jens Ludwig. “The Limited Impact of the Brady Act.” In Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9781421411101.
- Kingdon, John W. Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies . 2nd ed. Longman, 1995, pp. 21-30.
- Davidson, Roger H. “Presidential Relations with Congress.” In Understanding the Presidency . 6th ed. Longman, 2011, pp. 253–67.
- Hoch, Maureen. “The Battle over Same-Sex Marriage: Marriage and the States,” PBS Online NewsHour , April 30, 2004.
- Peterson, Paul. “The Price of Federalism.” In The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics . W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 73–81. ISBN: 9780393921588.
- Tarr, Alan. Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking . 3rd ed. Thompson Custom Publishing, 2003, pp. 281–88. ISBN: 9780534037130.
- Friedman, Leon. “Overruling the Court.” In The Enduring Debate: Classic and Contemporary Readings in American Politics . W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, pp. 263–67. ISBN: 9780393921588.
- Rabe, B. G. Chapter 1 in Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy . Brookings Institution Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780815773092. (Skim)
Prerequisites & course information
Same subject as 11.002[J] Prereq: None U (Fall) 4-0-8 units. HASS-S; CI-H
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2014
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